Trunks
Trunks is a male anime and manga character who features in Dragon Ball.
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Biography
Future
Trunks (Japanese: トランクス, Hepburn: Torankusu) was a male Human/Saiyan hybrid who was the son of Bulma and Vegeta. This version was born of an alternate timeline where Goku died from his heart virus. When Android 17 and Android 18 emerged, they slew all the Z Warriors, including Trunks' father. Trunks grew up in a world in constant fear of random attacks from the androids, and grew increasingly frustrated as his mother kept him away from conflict. Trunks eventually found a mentor in Gohan, the last surviving Z Warrior and a Super Saiyan. Under his tutelage, Trunks became a strong warrior, but was unable to take on the androids. Gohan lost an arm in one battle, and fell in a two-on-one match against the android twins. Enraged by Gohan's death, Trunks ascended to the level of Super Saiyan. Years passed, and Trunks made another attempt to destroy the androids, only to be severely beaten and left for dead. His mother, after nursing him back to health, convinced him to take another approach towards saving the world- use her newly completed time machine to travel to the past, and change history. Trunks agreed, and travelled back to August 764. There, he made quite an entrance, revealing his power as a Super Saiyan, and slaying both Frieza and King Cold. When Goku arrived, Trunks warned Goku of his heart virus (giving him a medicine for it) and warning him of the coming of the androids in three years. Trunks then returned to his future.
Unfortunately, nothing had changed. Trunks trained for a year, then returned to the past (767). He was further shocked to see that he had changed the past, with two unknown androids (Android 19 and Android 20) in place of the villains he was familiar with). Trunks joined the Z Warriors, finally realizing Android 20- alias Dr. Gero- was about to release 17 and 18. He tried to destroy them, but failed. While the other Z Warriors went to prepare for the coming battle in various ways, Trunks joined with [Krillin] and Gohan to take his mother home, but soon discovered a duplicate of his own time machine, aged many years. They thus discovered the first clues to [Cell]'s presence. Trunks and Krillin raided and destroyed Gero's lab, including the gestating embryo of Cell, and took the plans to the androids with them. Bulma used the plans to create devices that could deactivate the androids. (At this point, an alternate Trunks took one of the devices back to his time, and used them to defeat 17 and 18. This was Cell's home timeline- the weaker Trunks was easily slain by him, and he took Trunks' time machine to the past.) Trunks entered the Hyperbolic Time Chamber (Room of Spirit and Time) with his father, where they both trained to an enhanced Super Saiyan level over the course of an accelerated year compressed to one day. The pair left to confront Cell, who had ascended to his second stage after absorbing 17. Trunks was unable to stop Cell from absorbing 18 (Cell had a bit of help from his father), and was unable to defeat Perfect Cell with the power of the Ultimate Super Saiyan Stage 3 form. Humiliated, he offered Cell the chance to kill him, but instead Cell decided to initiate the Cell Games.
The half-Saiyan trained for another virtual year in the Time Chamber, but didn't actually participate in the Cell Games. However, when Cell returned from his apparent death in an even stronger form, his first act was to slay Trunks. He was resurrected by the Earth Dragon Balls. Trunks finally returned to his future, and easily destroyed the androids of his time. Three years after that, he slew his timeline's version of Cell when the then-imperfect being tried to kill him.
Present
When he was 8 years old, Trunks participated in the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai (天下一武道会, lit. "Strongest Under the Heavens Martial Arts Tournament") and defeats Son Goten in the junior division though the two of them cheated equally. Goten was his best friend and childhood rival with Trunks being the stronger of the pair and older than Goten as was pointed out by Goku. Eager to compete in the adult division, Trunks and Goten together impersonate another competitor named Mighty Mask (マイティマスク, Maiti Masuku) and were pitted against Android #18 and others in the tournament. However, they came to be disqualified when #18 figured out who they were and blew their cover revealing that they were really two people.
Upon the arrival of Majin Buu, Trunks was forced to train with Goten in the Room of Spirit and Time to become the fused warrior named Gotenks.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He refused to respect someone he did not like which was another trait he shared with his father.
Since childhood, he developed a strong friendship and friendly rivalry with Goten where both were shown to work well as a team.
It was shown that he had interest in girls as he developed a crush on Mai.
Powers and abilities
Trunks was a human/Saiyan hybrid and thus inherited the superhuman abilities of the latter. This included the ability to manipulate ki to achieve various feats. Among them were superhuman strength, speed, endurance, flight and the power to manipulate it into energy.
Though naturally strong, he was put through continuous training by his father under heavy gravity as Vegeta wanted his son to be stronger than Goten.
Among his signature techniques included:
- Double Buster (ダブルバスター Daburu Basutā) :
- Brave Cannon (ブレイブキャノン Bureibu Kyanon) :
- Buster Cannon (バスターキャノン Basutā Kyanon) :
- God Breaker (ゴッドブレイカー Goddo Bureikā) :
- Burning Attack (バーニングストーム Bāningu Sutōmu) :
- Finishing Buster (フィニッシュバスター Finisshu Basutā) :
Due to his Saiyan heritage, he was able to attain more power through a transformation by becoming a Super Saiyan (超スーパーサイヤ人じん Sūpā Saiya-jin). When achieved, he gained a golden aura around him with his hair turning gold as a result. In this form, he gained far greater power than his normal state which could allow him to overwhelm certain opponents. Trunks was capable of achieving this form even in his childhood. It was shown that through training he could increase his power level.
He was taught the Fusion Dance (フュージョン Fyūjon) whereby by synchronising his movements with Goten they were able to merge into a single form called Gotenks (ゴテンクス Gotenkusu). This state contained the combined abilities of both Trunks and Goten thus making them far more powerful than their ordinary forms.
Trunks was noted for using a sword of mysterious origins with this being his favourite weapon. Typically, the longsword was kept in a scabbard mounted across his back.
Notes
- Trunks was created by Akira Toriyama where he featured in the setting of Dragon Ball universe.
- Media referred to the future incarnation of the character as Future Trunks (未来のトランクス, Mirai no Torankusu, "Trunks of the Future") to distinguish him from his present self.
Alternate Versions
- In Dragon Ball GT, an alternate version of Trunks was shown to had existed in the timeline that continued years after the Majin Buu Saga.
In other media
Television
Films
- In Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Trunks appeared in the 1993 non-canonical anime film. Trunks returned to the past (prior to his defeat of Cell of his timeline) and became involved in the battle with Bojack.
Video games
- In Dragon Ball FighterZ, Trunks appeared as a playable character in the setting of the fighting video game where he was voiced by Japanese actor Takeshi Kusao and English actor Eric Vale in the dub.
Appearances
- Dragon Ball Z:
- Dragon Ball GT:
- Dragon Ball Super:
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